We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.ContinueFind out more

‘The Canadians of today, offspring of immigrants who built the Canadian Pacific Railway, have nonetheless refashioned this motto by blending the roots of their past with the nation of their future.’

‘Since then, he's refashioned the constitution and the government to keep himself in power.’

‘A three-sided range of low buildings might have suited the work needs of Victorian agricultural labourers down to the ground, but there are some design challenges in order to refashion such steadings into successful homes.’

‘In my vain yearning to refashion my self in the model of Nigella, I would be wise to consider several basic truths.’

‘By this phrase, I mean an environment in which inhabitants had the opportunity to fashion and refashion their identities, along with the choice of whether to transgress or abide by cultural boundaries.’

‘No matter how many fads they run through, no matter how many items they purchase in order to refashion their identity, they can never completely escape the political tragedy of the recent past.’

‘They transform social meaning, refashioning the concept of hacking into one that is imbued with negative content.’

‘They can fashion and refashion their identities, and through much of their lives that is just what they do.’

‘We train young people in the area - for instance, to refashion old timber - and have created 100 jobs in a poor rural area.’

‘These tiny blue-green algae refashioned their world by excreting oxygen while using hydrogen from water.’

‘It is also a history of change and decay, of accepting some components of an incoming civilisation and rejecting others and refashioning them in a new and familiar guise.’

‘Nevertheless, the city council is putting the finishing touches to an £11.5m blueprint that will refashion the city centre and kick-start a massive property boom in the northeast.’

‘Construction crews bustled about and the front door through which Hayes and Gilbert led me revealed an old entry hall being refashioned into a suave, modern lobby.’

‘One possibility would be to suggest ways to refashion the treaty to improve it, rather than to abandon it altogether.’

‘But it is hard not to ponder whether more intelligent constitutional reform could have refashioned the assembly in a useful way, rather than simply abolishing it.’

‘Plans are afoot to refashion the uniform in a bid to make the movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell more appealing to teenagers in the cyber-age.’